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• A New Generation Of Rare Book Collectors Joins The Old Scene

  08-05-2022 22:30 via nytimes.com
  
  The trade group the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America “started a diversity initiative in 2020 to ‘encourage and promote the participation of L.G.B.T.Q.+, BIPOC, and underrepresented groups,'” but some Millennials and Gen Zers had started on their own. – The New York Times
  
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• Star Of Sex Education To Become Next Doctor Who

  08-05-2022 22:00 via bbc.com
  
  Ncuti Gatwa will be the first Black man to play the Doctor, taking over from the first woman to play the popular and culturally powerful alien hero. – BBC
  
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• What’s London Doing To The South Bank Now?

  08-05-2022 21:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Simon Jenkins does not like the plans for a new building. “I could not imagine that London might inflict any more visual damage to the Thames than it has already done. No city on earth has made such a mess of its river.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Why Did The LA Review Of Books Tank A Negative Review By A Black Scholar?

  08-05-2022 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Mary Rambaran-Olm, a literary scholar who focuses on race and early medieval England, accused editors at The Los Angeles Review of Books of ‘torpedoing’ a strongly negative review … because of their friendship with the fellow white scholars” who wrote the book she reviewed. – The New York Times
  
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• The Irish Language Is Staging A Comeback

  08-05-2022 20:30 via irishtimes.com
  
  And not just on Duolingo, but on film. – Irish Times
  
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• A South Dakota School Board Wants To Pulp Alison Bechdel’s And Dave Eggers’ Books

  08-05-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Rapid City district has decided to destroy books by Eggers, Bechdel, Booker Prize-winning Bernadine Evaristo,Imbolo Mbue, and Stephen Chbosky. Why? Authors and topics are kinda, uh, gay, and the school board is homophobic. Eggers will replace them all. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Angelica In The 21st Century

  08-05-2022 19:30 via time.com
  
  There’s a reason the Tony-winning actor Renée Elise Goldsberry gave Hamilton‘s Angelica such a punch – she’s ambitious and brilliant, and depicts someone even more so in Girls 5eva. “I don’t know that women know that they’re allowed to be ambitious as they get older,” she says. – Time
  
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• Netflix’s Problems Are Causing A Lot Of Existential Crises Among Streamers

  08-05-2022 19:00 via latimes.com
  
  The main issue? Streamers are starting to realize that “continuing to try to go get new customers by spending a lot of money on original content is going to run out of steam.” What’s next? Probably (gulp!) advertising. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Fred Savage Fired From ‘The Wonder Years’ Reboot Over Allegations Of Inappropriate Conduct

  08-05-2022 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Savage, who starred in the original Wonder Years when he was a kid, has been at the center of a few stories about his conduct in recent years. This time, after an investigation, “the decision was made to terminate his employment as an executive producer and director.” – The New York Times
  
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• Reframed: The Woman in the Window review – all eyes on her indoors

  08-05-2022 14:00
  
  Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
  From Phoenicia to lockdown Britain, this ingenious show exploring the age-old motif of the woman in the window makes you re-evaluate the very act of looking There is a staggering vision in this exhibition of a woman’s head pressed against the bars of a window, her beautiful face enduring and forlorn. She is carved from a block of medieval limestone. The sculpture irresistibly calls upon your desire to break the bars and free the head, or at the very least re
  
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• Painting swapped in 70s for grilled cheese sandwich serves up windfall

  08-05-2022 12:15
  
  Painting by Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis traded for a meal at Irene and Tony Demas’s restaurant could fetch C$35,000Working out of the kitchen of their small restaurant in Ontario in the 1970s, Irene Demas and her husband Tony soon learned the value of trading their dishes for the talents of local bakers, craftspeople and artisans.“Everyone supported everyone back then,” said Irene, at the time a bright-eyed chef in her 20s. In exchange for daily fresh flowers, for example,
  
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• Gallerist Sadie Coles: ‘I don’t feel that digital will replace the art or objects’

  08-05-2022 10:30
  
  An early advocate of the Young British Artists, the London art dealer is always on the lookout for something originalAfter studying art history at Middlesex University, Sadie Coles, 59, worked at Bristol’s Arnolfini, then at the Anthony d’Offay gallery where she specialised in the younger artists including Sarah Lucas and Grayson Perry. In 1997 she set up her influential gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, in London’s West End. Artists she represents include Lucas, John Currin, Helen Mart
  
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• The big picture: John Stezaker’s intriguing journeys into nostalgia

  08-05-2022 08:00
  
  The British artist’s tranquil image of the actor Celeste Holm evokes a pre-60s era, shutting out the noise of pop artJohn Stezaker has made collages, often using stills from film magazines from the 1940s and 1950s, throughout his career as an artist. This one comes from his latest exhibition Double Shadow at the Approach Gallery in London. He doesn’t always identify the silhouettes in his cutouts, but here the actor with the white-gloved hands on the deck rail has a name – Cele
  
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